While teaching a class on intelligence and analysis last year, I asked my graduate students why the media’s shocking picture of the drowned Syrian boy seemed to have such an incredible effect on ...

One of my all-time favorite posts on the Social Media Contractors blog is by one of our editors, Catherine: Me Talk Witty One Day: The Art of Social Media Rhetoric. First of all, I think it’s spot on, ...

Aristotle and later Cicero wrote about argument being composed of logos, ethos and pathos. Most people know the “logos” as logic and “pathos” as emotion (easy to remember because of words such as ...

Is the internet losing its soul? A collaborative study by UC Riverside computer and social scientists suggests so. As ...

One of the aims of anthropology is to promote human self-understanding, that is, to activate a process of awareness of the existential and cultural dynamics we experience. This is a liberating process ...